Business Planning to Maximise Value
A practical half‑day workshop for business owners who want to increase profitability and build long-term business value, whether you're planning for growth, succession, investment, or eventual exit.
Description
This session helps you understand what actually drives business value, and how your current structure, systems, and financial position may be helping or holding you back.
Led by Louise Neville, you’ll work through a practical framework to assess where your business is today and identify clear priorities to improve performance, resilience, and future readiness.
By the end of the workshop, you’ll have a clearer view of:
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what your business is really worth (and why)
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how to strengthen profitability and structure
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where value is being created — and where it is being lost
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practical next steps to increase long-term business value
Who should attend?
Business owners positioning for improved performance, succession, investment, or longer-term change.
This Workshop / Course is registered with the Management Capability Development Fund. Find out more by visiting Regional Business Partner Network — business.govt.nz
Who can qualify for the subsidy
To access the subsidy for registered training, a business customer must meet the following criteria. They must:
- have undergone a discovery session with a Regional Business Partner growth advisor
- have fewer than 50 full-time equivalent employees
- be registered for GST in New Zealand (this applies to one-to-one training only)
- have a New Zealand Business Number (NZBN)
- be operating in a commercial environment; and
- be a privately owned business, or a Māori Trust or incorporation under Te Ture Whenua Māori Act 1993 or similar organisation managing Māori assets under multiple ownership.
Facilitated by
Louise Neville is the CEO and Director of Accounting Solutions Ltd.
For more than 26 years as a business mentor and Chartered Accountant, what has driven Louise is simple, seeing business owners achieve far more than they ever thought possible. There is nothing more rewarding to her than watching someone go from feeling stuck in their business to building something that not only creates financial freedom for them, but sets up their family, their team, and even the next generation for success.
Louise was truly humbled to be named 2025 Business Advisor of the Year through The GAP. That recognition means a great deal to her, because this is not just what she does — it is her passion. She loves helping small to medium business owners gain clarity, direction and structure so they can grow thriving, future-ready businesses and actually enjoy the life they are working so hard to build.
Too many business owners are trapped in the day-to-day grind. Louise’s role is to be a guiding light — providing strategic forward planning, strong financial foundations, and practical advice that turns big-picture goals into achievable steps. She combines commercial realism with deep expertise in financial accounting and business mentoring, so her clients can make confident decisions and move forward with certainty.
At Accounting Solutions, Louise has grown the business to a team of over 20. She knows firsthand what it takes to start with nothing and build a thriving business and culture. That lived experience shapes the way she mentors — it is real, practical, and achievable.
Louise’s specialty is helping business owners create true financial freedom — making what once felt impossible, possible. She sees it happen every day with clients. Watching them gain control, build wealth, and genuinely love their lives, that is her reward.
And that is why she does what she does.
Hear from Louise on how she supports organisations in this short video: